363 ratings (4.14 avg)
10 reviews

Jacquelyn

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/jackiepitts

Jacquelyn’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (569)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (416)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

recommended-by-friends‎ (40)
favorites‎ (0)

recently-read‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Jacquelyn is Currently Reading

Jacquelyn is currently reading

Sunshine State: Essays

by Sarah Gerard

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Feb 17, 2026 10:52AM

Jacquelyn’s Quotes

“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

134 likes

“Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

167 likes

“because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

122 likes

“Yes, and the body has memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

31 likes

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: death, meaning

1249 likes

More of Jacquelyn’s quotes…